Everything Everywhere All At Once

I'm tempted to see a third time in IMAX

This was fantastic. I am 100% fine with having a trope-y love>hate story when it is done with this much heart. What stands as unique to me (in my limited cinema-vocabulary) is how they did it with so much "FUN". No room for melancholy or intellectual-vanity. It doesn't have a silly pride about its philosophical ideas (a la anything Nolan has done). What I loved the most was its ability to squeeze comedy into its most heart-felt moments (I don't care about supposed manipulation if I believe the message to be true, all cinema is propaganda). Racocoonie tragedy killed me.

I'd demur that there's room for melancholy, the sign on the room says "like Wong Kar-Wei". But yeah, this was amazing.

loved this a lot, how it managed to tell a story that was massive and small at the same time. a lot of dream/multiverse movies struggle with the limitless possibility that their premise implies, but this didn’t suffer from lack of imagination or whirring plot mechanics for their own sake (like inception, and i haven’t seen the new doc strange, but I’ll just assume that one has the same problem)

i did not expect nearly this much action, so that was a pleasant surprise, especially considering how creative the fight scenes were

also, i am 99% positive that the scene with the rocks was filmed at canyonlands in utah, which i visited very recently. so that just added to the surreality

Didn't realise RRR was on Netflix, although not in it's original language apparently :(

The actors did their own dubs, 100% of the dialogue is ADR even in Telugu, and it takes over 45 minutes before the first scene that doesn’t include at least one character speaking English (and another 20 before the second). I bet you wouldn’t notice if you didn’t know to look for it (I have not seen the Hindi tho)

Ah, cheers

I didn't love this. I probably need to see RRR shortly.

For all its charms I didn't like this movie much, found it kind of annoying and too long by ... an hour? "RRR" is definitely pretty long itself, but I enjoyed almost every ridiculous minute of it.

michelle yeoh was such a hosebag mom that she's dissolved the barriers that normally separate her daughter's metaversal existences; her daughter feels every possible infinite permutation of reality at the same time every second. and instead of this breaking the daughter's brain it has made her into a supervillain who wants to suck all of existence into a black hole of nihilism of her own creation. have i got that right?

yeah it feels almost churlish given the inventiveness and ingenuity and michelle yeoh but it felt like something wild and original had been contained and tamed

Found all the wacky shit and second-half speechifying very very grating but in the end liked this, maybe mostly for Yeoh and Quan.

like the tagline was “her real superpower was…. unconditional love” or some shit

what worked the best for me was the glimpse of other lives, the regret for paths not taken, all the wong kar-wai stuff, which is difficult to resolve, maybe impossible.. i would have liked the movie to move around in that difficult area more

So, less dumb stuff, more serious stuff?

no. there's an unresolvable difficulty about paths not taken that, when it was front and centre, was compelling. how did michelle yeoh end up in this shit universe doing thankless, backbreaking work, when she has it within her to be a star, a badass? is she going to do something about it? what about her husband? is a life with HIM worth giving up all this OTHER stuff? it can be serious or silly or both but to me it's interesting. much more so than, i dunno, figuring out how to say "i love you" to her daughter

To me there's plenty interesting here though... The Evelyn who saves the day is the one who never excelled at anything, and is so lost in the struggle to support the family in general, that she doesn't really see or hear its individual members (including Joy but also Waymond). The Joy she needs to reach is the one whose mother excelled beyond all prior human experience by pioneering dimensional travel... but saw her daughter as a tool or sacrifice in that project. And now this Evelyn has experienced all this multiversal potential of herself, but maybe because she's exactly who she is, she's able to come to some new conclusions and engage evil Joy in a way nobody else could. Idk. It's not a completely worked out reading obv.

The final 45 minutes of this, it felt like every shot in every scene was in slow motion. First time I’ve ever been tempted to watch a movie at 1.5x.

Film’s getting re-released with an extra 8 minutes of outtakes

watched this at home but would be tempted to see this in a theater now with 8 minutes of additional stuff. This movie was long but didn't feel long at all to me.

how did michelle yeoh end up in this shit universe doing thankless, backbreaking work, when she has it within her to be a star, a badass? is she going to do something about it? what about her husband? is a life with HIM worth giving up all this OTHER stuff?

There are a LOT of women out there you could put this question to. Maybe it resonates more being a woman but yeah women do give up lives of stardom and badassery because they have to be mothers. It wasnt odd to me at all!

otm that was maybe the throughlone that made the most sense lol

throughline ffs

i loved this

lol Michelle Yeoh herself stopped working for years to have a family with her husband, so obv it is worth giving up the other stuff for some people

Yeah if anything the point is that ANYONE chooses responsibility/obligation over full indulgence of their capabilities, or of stardom, in 99.9% of possible universes

Film’s getting re-released with an extra 8 minutes of outtakes

It’s still going in first run here!

Is this thread about this video?

This whole video stressed me bad. pic.twitter.com/PTBHbjenog

— Andrew Tate is a d1ck3ater (@CreamBlanco) July 28, 2022

sic i’m not sure anyone needs to mansplain “the point” of this movie to anyone else

i think that’s me Trayce is quoting there and i agree that was the most interesting theme in the movie and i kinda wish we’d had a bit more of it

is agreeing mansplaining now?

i leave that as an exercise for the reader

She's doing great across the multiverse if that's the worst version of her.

I hope The Daniels make more films with fighting in them.

this is the exact level of information you should know about this movie going into it, 13/10, excellent work airplane synopsis copywriters https://t.co/qgjILcJElx

— Ben Smith (@BenMSmith) July 30, 2022

Incidentally the extended version is being shown at the Curzon Bloomsbury in goode olde London. I was tempted to go, but it's a teeny-tiny screen:
https://i.imgur.com/29Z6z0e.jpg

I remember seeing Barry Lyndon there a few years ago and thinking "that is a teeny-tiny screen" and "I am uncomfortably close to Leonard Rossiter" and "what is tow?" and "can you shoot someone with your toe" and "did Stanley Kubrick hang out with Leonard Rossiter" and "did they go drinking" and "that's a nice-looking house".

The Prince Charles has it, presumably on a bigger screen

The airplane synopsis is directly from the Daniels if I recall correctly - it's only recently been slightly expanded on the A24 website https://a24films.com/films/everything-everywhere-all-at-once

finally watched this; liked it a lot; can't imagine that inspecting the details too closely will be worthwhile; michelle yeoh is incredible

only caveat is that initial waymond is far too weak. there's no way that guy a) wanted to leave hong kong or b) could persuade evelyn to join him in leaving

I think informational rewatches are only rewarding once or twice. If you're rewatching for feels, it never gets old.

xp Watch it again someday; even the original Waymond is far from weak. His strength is one of the great things about the film! Especially when you realize so much of his persona, while genuinely sensative and caring, is still deliberate

Saw it sometime ago but have to agree with that. It is a bit of a cliche to describe it this way but his character has that “I’m secure in who I am so I don’t need to seem tough“ kind of persona

Cosigning the bewilderment at reading Waymond as weak

tbh I can't believe how little Stephanie Hsu has been talked about here and elsewhere. Like, every moment Joy or Jobu was on the screen I was completely captivated.

I think it’s a given that all three leads in this were stellar

I liked this, although not quite as much as everyone else, maybe because I only saw it last week so am a little late to the party. Saw it in the same theater I saw the Elvis movie in, wonder what the next movie could possibly be to complete my American Trilogy.

Prey obv

Prey was initially jarring watching 18th century Comanche speaking modernly structured, 21st century styled English, but I mean this IS a Predator movie

if you want to get hardcore you can watch the Comanche dub with English subtitles

that's probably what i'm going to do honestly.

i used to be the guy that avoided the hilarious cheesy English dubs in kung fu cinema because I preferred hearing Mandarin dubs with English subtitles

Subs over dubs, always

About the rerelease, when they say “outtakes” do they mean deleted scenes edited back into the film or like… an 8-minute gag reel? Have to think the former cause how can the latter really be a draw but it’s unclear in the stuff I’ve seen about it

The latter.